Well from what I can tell after almost a week of reading and posting on the Outsourcing disucssion thread is that most of the people in IT are SHEEP who do not belive that one day they will be led to the slaughter house. They believe in this Fairy Tale about an IT Tech who works 70 hours per week, spends $10,000.00 per year going to school for certs and keeps his job while all the rest of the “lazy” sheep are led to slaughter.
Outsourching is killing the Horatio Alger IT Social Myth.
While you and I and others who see what is comming are being treated like the “Little Boy Who Cried Wolf”
The Outsourcing Story has a moral.
But, from what I can tell, most IT people are content to stick their heads in the sand and pretend that everything is ok. Obviously, if it has not happened to me, it won’t.
Or, the most Famous of Last Words…..”It won’t happen here”.
Thoes who fail to learn from History are doomed to repeat it.
Obviously what happened to the UAW, the Steel industry, the textile industry, etc., won’t happen to the IT industry.
Ah, anyone reading this remember recent history?….The DOT COM Boom and BUST?
Ah..anyone understand what the MATRIX movies were trying to say?
I do recomend that all currently employed IT Professionsals start organizing their finances so that when they are led to the slaughter they have a couple of years worth of money in the bank whille they go to “Burger U” or “Greeter U” for their next career.
Now is a good time to sell your house, pay off and turn in your credit cards and get a used car before your forced to do it. It’s not pretty making $9-$12/hour schlepping hardware on a short term assignment.
However, you can get a nice high paying ATM Service Tech job for a cool $13/hour. Lab Techs are making $10/hour these days and the Nursing Profession and Teaching Professions are filling up fast.
And, of course the US Government is giving all the lower paying jobs to illegal immigrants.
OH – this brings up APEASEMENT…..
Anyone remember Hitler and Chamberlain? Oh, that was before the 8088. Not relevant to today.
Guess not, unless you happened to be Jewish in Warsaw or Berlin in the 1930’s and 40’s.
Now can anyone tell me why IT Professionals are more secure than say an Auto or Steel Worker.
Especially since advances in remote support tools will make it increasingly easy to ship LAN AFMIN and Help Desk Jobs offshore to people making $3-$4,000.00 per year. Lot of good your MSCE certs will do you in a few years.